RURAL.  NEW-YORKER 
555 
I*  acts  from  Long  Island 
As  a  member  of  the  community  of 
Sound  Aver. ue  I  wish  to  rise  and  thank 
and  answer  our  friends  Jared  Van  Wag- 
enen,  Jr.,  and  The  It.  N.-Y,  Any  facts 
which  show  the  truth  of  our  friends’ 
•statements  may  also  be  interesting  to  our 
brother  farmers.  One  of  the  rural  school- 
houses  referred  to  by  Air.  Van  Wa Rouen 
has  just  been  burned.  In  the  second 
story  it  had  an  auditorium  (it)  b.v  20  feet 
in  which  the  children  were  allowed  to 
play.  It  was  the  center  for  an  athletic 
club,  and  no  community  which  has  not 
had  such  a  place  can  understand  its 
value.  The  new  scboolbmise  will  have  a 
new  and  better  one. 
The  North  Shore  of  Long  Island  Air. 
Van  Wagenen  told  you  was  agricultural. 
Within  a  radius  of  one  mile  from  where 
the  writer  sits  there  were  grown  last 
year  025  acres  of  potatoes  with  an  aver¬ 
age  yield  of  about  175  bushels  per  acre. 
Very  few  of  these  acres  were  ever  sprayed 
with  Bordeaux.  There  was  some  loss 
from  late  blight,  but  by  planting  in  late 
March  and  early  April  we  generally  get 
ahead  of  bad  damage  from  the  rot. 
It  might  be  interesting  to  know  how 
fast,  potatoes  are  carted  to  the  station. 
To-day.  Feb.  20.  at  Aquebogue  there  were 
waiting  to  be  unloaded  by  one  dealer  17 
wagon  loads,  and  this  I  saw  at  4  I’.  M. 
Sometimes  20  carloads  will  be  shipped 
from  this  one  station  in  one  week.  There 
is  probably  a  record  bolding  of  potatoes 
this  Winter,  and  let  me  say  that  these 
potatoes  do  not  grow  gratis.  This  same 
dealer,  and  he  is  one  of  many  fertilizer 
agents,  has  sold  84  carloads  of  fertilizer 
about  here.  Quite  a  number  of  growers 
have  2.000  or  .‘1.000  bushels  of  potatoes  on 
hand  yet.  The  writer  has  carted  over 
2.000  bushels  this  last,  month  at  $1.20. 
Within  this  same  mile  radius  referred 
to  there  are  about  80  acres  of  cauliflowers 
grown.  These  yield  all  the  way  from 
nothing  to  $300  worth  per  acre.  To  il¬ 
lustrate:  This  year  the  writer  dug  Irish 
Cobblers  at  200  bushels  per  acre,  45  cents 
per  bushel,  and  put  in  two  acres  of  cauli¬ 
flowers  after  them,  from  which  he  cut 
about  $250  worth  per  acre.  IIow  about 
that  for  a  second  crop!  Over  against 
this  a  neighbor  hardly  obtained  the  price 
of  seed  for  the  entire  crop. 
About  125  acres  of  corn,  80  acres  of 
other  grains,  and  smaller  acreages  of  hay, 
roots,  pasture,  Brussels  sprouts,  fruits, 
etc.,  may  also  be  included  within  this 
area.  Father  and 
The  Rest  of  Your  Farm  Is  Up-to-Date 
—What  About  Your  Home? 
You  modern  business  farmer — with  your  up-to-date  machinery,  labor  saving 
equipment  and  improved  methods  of  farming — what  about  your  home  ? 
Have  the  improvements  in  your  home  kept  up  with  the  improvements  you 
have  purchased  to  save  your  labor  on  the  outside? 
Or,  in  your  efforts  to  succeed  have  you  been  too  busy  to  think  of  and  provide 
the  modern  comforts  and  conveniences  for  your  wife  and  children? 
Chief  among  the  modern  improvements  for  the  farm  home  is  good  light. 
Times  have  changed.  The  dirty,  dangerous  oil  lamps  and  lanterns  have 
long  ago  gone  out  of  fashion — where  progressive  farmers  are  concerned. 
Pilot-Outdoor 
Lighting  and  Cooking  Plants 
son  work  together 
here.  Hail  to  the  day  when  every  farmer 
father  shall  make  the  farm  and  farm  life 
so  attractive  that  his  son  or  sons  shall 
spurn  the  city  and  the  factory.  Yes,  we 
are  proud  of  our  race,  our  homes  and  our 
acres.  T,.  X-  W- 
Riverhead,  N.  Y. 
A  72-year-old  Agricultural  Club 
On  page  105  appeared  an  article  on 
“Old  Agricultural  Clubs.”  While  not 
perhaps  the  oldest,  yet  one  of  the  oldest 
and  most  successful  is  the  Farmers’  Club 
of  Sandy  Spring,  Montgomery  County. 
Aid.  This  club  was  organized  in  1X14, 
bas  had  a  continuous  history,  still  holds 
regular  monthly  meetings,  and  has  in¬ 
spired  the  organization  of  four  neighbor¬ 
ing  clubs,  all  active  and  successful. 
These  clubs  are  closely  federated  in  the 
Farmers’  Convention,  which  meets  once 
a  year.  This  annual  meeting  is  open  to 
the  public,  and  I  had  the  honor  of  a 
Place  on  the  program  at  its  forty-third 
session,  Feb.  22nd.  Besides  papers  and 
discussions  on  timely  agricultural  topics, 
the  program  always  includes  the  pre¬ 
sentation  of  many  resolutions  on  various 
questions  affecting  the  rural  life  of  the 
community.  Many  of  these  resolutions 
go  direct  to  legislative  committees,  and 
the  history  and  prestige  of  the  convention 
is  such  that  they  carry  considerable 
weight.  Another  of  these  federated 
clubs,  the  Enterprise,  recently  celebrated 
its  semi-centennial.  v  .t  v  ir 
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